Note 266 — Chapter III · THE UNIVERSITY AS A DEGREE-GIVING BODY
Reading edition
“The Tripos is a paper containing the names of the principal graduates for the year. It also contains 2 copies of verses written by two of the undergraduates, who are appointed to that employment by the proctors.“—Dyer. An extract from one of these sets of tripos verses is given in Dyer, Hist. Camb. ii. 89.